The original building was constructed in 1756 as Whitefield's Tabernacle. It was struck by the last German V2 rocket to fall on London on Palm Sumday 1945. The replacement building was built in 1957 and became the American Church in 1976.

[FR] En 1944, cette église est atteinte par un obus visant une colonne de chars allemands qui stationnait à proximité. [EN] In 1944, the church was hit by a shell aimed a column of German tanks which was parked in the vicinity.

Christ Church was completed in 1876 at a cost of £60,000 which also included a tower and spire, paid with American contributions, as a memorial to Abraham Lincoln. The tower is all that remains of the original building due to bombing during WWII.

Christ Church Greyfriars, destroyed by German bombing of London during the Blitz, is preserved as a ruin to recall that awful time at the start of WWII and the heroism of the people who lived through it

During WWII, Norwegian saboteurs working with British Intelligence saved the world by planning the Telemark Raid from this small flat in the heart of London, preventing the Nazi nuclear program from making an atomic bomb